Swimming Challenge

Morning all

Scores on the doors

Happychap 359
IronCat5 in the Hat 122
Tired Badger 90
B_Kins 80
The Silent Assassin 59
Barlo 38
Purple 30
WildWill 25
JvR 19
Stanners 6
ET7 2
AvaLaf 0
Iron Muffin 0
Mathschick 0
Meldy 0
Pkim 0
Sarah the bookworm 0
Schmunkee 0
SlowerThanILook 0
This is Tom's Pseudonym 0

There may be some late posters still to come

September / Week 4 now open

New September Base times (again these may change due to late posters)

07:07 AvaLaf
06:30 B_Kins
07:09 Barlo
12:02 ET7
10:00 Happychap
06:21 Iron Muffin
07:29 IronCat5 in the Hat
09:58 JvR
11:38 Mathschick
06:48 Meldy
10:15 Pkim
08:04 Purple
08:21 Sarah the bookworm
12:47 Schmunkee
08:08 SlowerThanILook
07:52 Stanners
08:10 The Silent Assassin
08:25 This is Tom's Pseudonym
06:36 Tired Badger
07:45 WildWill

These new times are base on how good/bad you did last month 

Sheet at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/62128064/Save.xlsx

Its going to be tough improving my 7.09 but this is just the motivation I need.

May not improve every month but if I can improve most months im going to be swimming sub 7.00 400m for the first time ever

Yeah cheers for setting this up Will. Sights are set on sub 6 by December! 

Last weeks time was slower than my base time do I register it ?

08:14

Yep it goes on the sheet

Barlos, i'll pace you  

6.20 for me last night. Think I have plateaued. Like Barlos said, I may leave it a month beforfe doing the TT again.

In the meantime lots of intervals and technique stuff for me. I say lots but I am only swimming once a week at the minute.

Been a bit shoddy with this (despite swimming more 400's than usual lately). I did a 7:50 and then a 7:37 last week. Is logging it here OK?

I'll shave-down this week and change-up from boardies to speedos. That should see me comfortably better than Muffin's 6:20. That said, I only want to get quick enough to chase-down Barlos on the bike leg at Tenby .

That should be a good smack down then STIL !

No swimming for me last week so I shall come back this week fuly rested 

STIL,

I hope youll have trouble chasing me down on the bike leg, not that youll have a bad ride but that ill do a darn site better than last year.  I packed in at 70 miles having take nearly 7 hours.

That said though the course was tough, something wasnt right with me, I had nothing in the tank even from the start.

I will say treat the course with the respect it deserves and save some thing for the two loops of Saundersfoot (as if you dont know that hills going to be tough last time round).

M...eldy wrote (see)

Barlos, i'll pace you  

Want a smackdown at Bletchley pool in December 

December?  Why wait ... 

are you scared?  

M...eldy wrote (see)

December?  Why wait ... 

M...eldy wrote (see)

are you scared?  

Not scared, I just think im going to improve more than you and our standards will nearly merge.  That will of course mean ive made up more than a minute gap, translate that to Lanza and I think youll be out the water a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong way behind me.

Its also worth remembering you cant walk Lanza swim as the seabed drops a few dozen meters when you get out a bit

and dont forget the waves which keep hitting you in the face when you breath

and the swell which mucks up your stroke

and the thick taste of salt

So, you think you will improve and you dont think that I will  ??  


The only think you will be tasting is defeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat.

Good morning 06:42 for me this morning in the pool, rest of this weeks swims are OW so i'm not going to improve on this.